July 31, 2012 8:09 am

Seattle Seahawks' Brandon Mebane (92), Chris Clemons (91), and Clinton McDonald (69) walk off the field following the first day of NFL football training camp, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

My story today focuses on the budding relationship between defensive ends Bruce Irvin and Chris Clemons, who need to work together in order to improve the Seattle Seahawks pass rush.

The Seahawks finished with just 12 sacks on third down last year, fourth worst in the league. But Seattle believes it has fixed that situation by adding Irvin, along with situational pass rusher Jason Jones on third down.

Irvin said his learning curve has improved with Clemons in camp.

“It’s a big help,” Irvin said about having Clemons back in the fold. “I felt like when Clem wasn’t here, I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Now that Clem is here and I get can a visual of what he’s doing, it really helps me out a lot.”

Dave Boling of The News Tribune talks with defensive end Red Bryant about fatherhood and changing the occasional diaper. Said Bryant: “That’s when you learn how much you really love somebody … when you change their diapers.”

More Farnsworth: He talks with Kennedy’s teammate linebacker Dave Wyman about what it was like playing behind Tez. Wyman:“I always say, Tez would wipe out two or three gaps. So a lot of the big solo tackles I got and some of the best hits I had in my career were because Tez would wipe out an entire side of the line. He was that good, and just an amazing force.”

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

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Tez= easily one of the most underrated player of all time! Because of where he played and, also the position he played. Was very visible in 1992 when he got a bunch of sacks, but he was underrated and under-covered from then on out.

If anybody has doubts that Matt Flynn will win the starting job, perhaps they should read Tom Silverstein’s report from Packers’ training camp last year:

Maybe the coaches have scored it differently, but from a sideline view, backup quarterback Matt Flynn has had a better camp than starter Aaron Rodgers. Flynn usually plays with the backups and often runs the scout team, which are factors that weigh against him. Yet practice after practice, he’s fearless in the pocket, on target with his throws and always calm and collected. If scouts from other teams were allowed to attend practice, they would be making calls back home as fast as possible.

Duke- Correct me if i am wrong as Jacob Green was one of my faves from back in the day and i was just a little kid)but wasn’t there a game where he helped block a FG, picked up the ball and ran down field but got so winded he kept trying to hand the ball off to one of his “hawks teammates for fear of being tackeld but they wouldn’t let him as they wanted him to score the TD? I think it was like a 90 yard run or so. I swear I remember something like that and found it one of the coolest and funniest plays I have ever seen. One of my Top 10 favorite Hawks memory from when I was young (born in ’73) the #1 is probably Kenny Easley missling into some poor sap from i think ti was the Raiders on a punt. as soon as that ball touched the guys hands Kenny wiped him out. Amazing. #2 memory was Largent’s revenge hit. man he took that dude out!

That sounds really familiar. I’ll see if I can find something on that.

I have a similar Easley memory: During the ’83 playoff game in the ‘Dome, he straight *blew up* Zach Thomas on punt coverage. Thomas caught the ball and before he could take a step, just as his head was coming down to look at the field, Easley launch in to him. He must have knocjed him back 5 yards. 60,000 people let out a collective “Ohhhhh!” So violent. It was awesome.

Easley was before my time, but the highlights of his I have watched are Ridiculous!. I hope Kam can play somewhere close to the same level. Doesn’t have quite the speed, but he has an incredible knack 4 blowing dudes up!

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